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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY</title>
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		<title>Science as the Art of &#8220;Ought Management&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Science&#8211;the world&#8217;s most efficient way to both find and work with reality&#8211;is not a recipe or formula. It&#8217;s an art, the art of Ought Management. The core insight behind science goes something like this: To get what you want, set aside what you want long enough to see what is. In other words: To bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Fire With Fire: Strategy Lessons From Newt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If psychology is your game, the opening exchange between Newt Gingrich and John King in last Thursday&#8217;s Republican debate is not just this week&#8217;s hottest news item, but the most revealing study in human psychology we&#8217;ve had in a long time. Here&#8217;s the video And here&#8217;s the text of the exchange: John King: &#8220;Your ex-wife [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/fighting-fire-with-fire-strategy-lessons-from-newt/</link>
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		<title>Clueless? Lying? Loyal? Explaining Why He Disagrees With You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is with him? How can he believe such garbage? It&#8217;s so bad it&#8217;s not even wrong. It&#8217;s worse than wrong! Sometimes I think he&#8217;s just clueless. He simply can&#8217;t see the truth. But then other times I get this whiff of the devious and think he can see the truth just fine but refuses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/clueless-lying-loyal-explaining-why-he-disagrees-with-you/</link>
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		<title>Rub-o-nomics: What lovers can tell you about politics and economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look,it&#8217;s simple,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There&#8217;s rubbing and not rubbing; there&#8217;s whether it feels good or doesn&#8217;t, and whether it is good or isn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s all.&#8221; &#8220;Now Mitch and I, we&#8217;ve been together 25 years. Lovers? Yeah, you could call us that. And you know we&#8217;ve seen it all. We were so young. At first all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/rub-o-nomics-what-lovers-can-tell-you-about-politics-and-economics/</link>
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		<title>Sixteen Lies About Lying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[strange&#8211;the village lived in terror of the marauder, a man who many had witnessed destroying their fellow villager,s lives. And yet if you asked any of the witnesses to describe the marauder they seemed barely curious about who he was and how to identify him.  For all the damage the marauder did, people couldn&#8217;t be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/sixteen-lies-about-lying/</link>
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		<title>Are Psychologists Just Self-Medicating?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[done it. I&#8217;ve invented a two-step, sure-fire diet plan, the secret to successful weight loss. Here it is: Pick any existing diet that is low on calories. Write a mega-bestselling book about it with your picture on the cover. The hardest part of any diet is sticking to it. But if you&#8217;re the originator of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/are-psychologists-just-self-medicating/</link>
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		<title>Both Kinds of Wonder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re heading into a winter wonderland and I mean that in two ways.  First, the traditional way. Things slow down, and hopefully we get a chance to relax and not just count our wonderful blessings but savor them in a state of wonder, appreciation and awe. Second, the other meaning of wonder, as in &#8220;hmmm&#8230;I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/both-kinds-of-wonder/</link>
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		<title>Getting Away From Your Partner: A Practical Approach To Earned Time Apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago a bachelor friend mused that marriage should include earned vacation.  If you&#8217;ve been married a year, you get a week off, two years; two weeks off, on up to full seniority with an annual month off, not including sick leave and holidays when you need to be on deck, decking the halls. “What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/getting-away-from-your-partner-a-practical-approach-to-earned-time-apart/</link>
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		<title>Whiner Republicans: How Cain Epitomizes Our Worst Psychological M.O.s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current Republican competition may be ostensibly for the White House but it would serve perfectly as a new game show: Who best epitomizes the worst in human character. Cain is a top contender in a field of unprecedentedly stellar contenders in this race to the bottom-most dredges of human nature. What do you get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/whiner-republicans-how-cain-epitomizes-our-worst-psychological-m-o-s/</link>
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		<title>Why Blind Rage At Their Errors Blinds Us To Ours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I get angry with someone for doing something I don&#8217;t like, all of my memories of having done something similar vaporize instantly. Why is that? I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s just me. It seems a pretty universal default behavior: &#8220;Don&#8217;t interrupt me,&#8221; she hissed, for a time forgetting that she ever interrupted anyone in her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/why-blind-rage-at-their-errors-blinds-us-to-ours/</link>
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		<title>My Best Guess What The World Needs Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He says &#8220;Baby, I really, really want to make you happy,&#8221; but she&#8217;s not buying it. He&#8217;s all talk and intention. She sees how he behaves and no, not only is he not making her happy, he&#8217;s not really trying to figure out what it would take, how to translate his talk into walk; his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/my-best-guess-what-the-world-needs-now/</link>
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		<title>At Last, Scientists Explain Why Animals Want Things But Objects Don&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it were a snake it would have bit us. It&#8217;s sitting right under our noses. It&#8217;s the unifying insight behind the two biggest breakthrough clues toward solving the biggest remaining scientific mystery. Grateful and greatly encouraged by the breakthrough clues we ran with them, ignoring their underlying and unifying insight, the insight that made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/at-last-scientists-explain-why-animals-want-things-but-objects-dont/</link>
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		<title>A Holiday Vaccine against Viral Glasses Half-Empty or Half-Full of Malarkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This holiday season you may encounter people who wield the words optimism, pessimism, half-full and half-empty as though they know what they&#8217;re talking about, when they don&#8217;t. You yourself might be such a person. Here&#8217;s a test: Which of these stories is about the true optimist and which is about the true pessimist? 1. Sharon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/a-holiday-vaccine-against-viral-glasses-half-empty-or-half-full-of-malarkey/</link>
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		<title>The Self-Exempting &#8220;We&#8221; and Other Dodgy Pronouns In Worldly Pronouncements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We read for insight, the same reason we gossip and watch comedies about the clueless and dramas about the evil. Certainly there are other reasons, but insight is primary. We drop down onto this planet with scant instruction on how to live. We look for clues where we can find them, through experience in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/the-self-exempting-we-and-other-dodgy-pronouns-in-worldly-pronouncements/</link>
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		<title>Myopium:  New Stronger Drugs Keeping Us Euphorically Short-sighted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How should we live? In the here and now? Not quite, and we know it. The future looms. We have to anticipate. We use today to make tomorrow possible, which in turn we use to make the day after tomorrow possible. Call it a rat race if you like. Yes, rats do it too in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/myopium-new-stronger-drugs-keeping-us-euphorically-short-sighted/</link>
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		<title>How Good Intentions Make Us Dumb and Mean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the fourth time she&#8217;s done it and this time you&#8217;re not going to let it pass. Carefully, diplomatically you tell her that she has got to stop insulting you in front of your friends. It&#8217;s getting weird. If she has complaints and criticisms, you want her to talk with you about them frankly and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/how-good-intentions-make-us-dumb-and-mean/</link>
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		<title>The Double-Entry Bookkeeping Secret to Building Stable Loving Relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The secret to a stable relationship like ours,&#8221; she said proudly,&#8221; is give and take, a real 50/50 balance.&#8221; I should look at her while she&#8217;s talking to me, but I&#8217;m sneaking peeks at him, checking for a reaction. I know the couple well and you would have to cook the books pretty creatively to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/the-double-entry-bookkeeping-secret-to-building-stable-loving-relationships/</link>
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		<title>The Silent Treatment: What It Means Personally and Cosmically</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe they just didn&#8217;t hear you. Or maybe they heard you just fine and have decided that you&#8217;re an idiot, not even worth responding to. Maybe they got your message but are simply too busy to respond. Maybe they&#8217;re just quietly thinking it over and still haven&#8217;t decided. Maybe they&#8217;re so apologetic that they don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/the-silent-treatment-what-it-means-personally-and-cosmically/</link>
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		<title>Align for Freedom:  Hippie/Conservative parallels on the paradox of dictating liberty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After I left the world&#8217;s largest hippie commune but before I cut off my long hair, it occurred to me that the two central tenets of our hippie beliefs were on a collision course with each other. We were talking out both sides of our mouths, saying opposite, irreconcilable things. On the one hand we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/align-for-freedom-hippieconservative-parallels-on-the-paradox-of-dictating-liberty/</link>
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		<title>The surprising secret to detecting villains before they get you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you watch movies and TV, read fiction, follow politics or like good gossip? If you do, then chances are you&#8217;re a lifelong student of Villainology, the study of what makes bad guys bad and mean people suck. Criminology is something else, the study of people who break laws. A lot of the world&#8217;s worst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/the-surprising-secret-to-detecting-villains-before-they-get-you/</link>
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		<title>The Know-It-All Fallacy: “Yeah, but he’s got an answer for that too!”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And he was never known to make a foolish move.&#8221; Bob Dylan &#8220;You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time,  but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.&#8221; Abraham Lincoln To fool anyone all of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/the-know-it-all-fallacy-%e2%80%9cyeah-but-he%e2%80%99s-got-an-answer-for-that-too%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Psychopath Cowboys, Sociopath Herds:  A New Theory of How Evil Happens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want a simple but accurate explanation for why civilizations sometimes veer toward evil, here&#8217;s a theory worth considering: Psychopaths are overrepresented in positions of power and they make sociopaths out of large numbers of us. Robert Hare, psychology&#8217;s most famous expert on psychopaths distinguishes psychopaths from sociopaths as follows. Psychopaths are without conscience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/psychopath-cowboys-sociopath-herds-a-new-theory-of-how-evil-happens/</link>
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		<title>Ask a Medieval Doctor&#8211;This week:  Of climate, cats and kings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Medieval Doctor, We&#8217;ve got a plague-like apocalypse just starting here and we&#8217;re trying to figure out what to do to minimize its nightmare effects. Our &#8220;Nobles&#8221; (Congress) just voted 240 to 184 to defeat a royal decree (Waxman Amendment) that our plague (global warming) is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/ask-a-medieval-doctor-this-week-of-climate-cats-and-kings/</link>
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		<title>Betting a Ferrari on Climate Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Put your money where your claim of prudent skepticism is,&#8221; I say to my denier friends, &#8220;I&#8217;ll bet you a Ferrari that the climate crisis is real and of the magnitude established by more than 99% of juried scientific research.&#8221; One of the things I like about the climate crisis (actually the only thing) is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/betting-a-ferrari-on-climate-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Surprising speech given at July 4th Tea Party Rally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the July 4th Tea Party picnic rally speeches, here&#8217;s one I would have liked to hear: America doesn,t rest on formulas. It innovates faster and more responsively than other nations. The Tea Party&#8217;s liberal critics think we&#8217;re backward-thinking conservatives and conservatives think liberals are pie-in-the-sky futurists. We&#8217;re neither. We&#8217;re realists responsive to today&#8217;s opportunities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/surprising-speech-given-at-july-4th-tea-party-rally/</link>
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